Use cost syntax on both legs: {...} not @@
On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 1:35 AM Red S <[email protected]> wrote:
> Existing mutual fund shares occasionally get converted to a different
> class of shares. The resulting class typically has a different NAV, so the
> transaction ends up looking like:
>
> 2011-01-01 * "Mutual fund exchange: upgrade share class"
> Assets:Investments:Taxable:Vanguard-Pre-75305462 -35.0101 ABC_COMMON
> @@ 123.45 USD
> Assets:Investments:Taxable:Vanguard-Pre-75305462 7.3242 ABC_PREMIUM
> @@ 123.45 USD
>
> However, the problem here is, cost bases for the lots that make up the
> 35.0101 ABC_COMMON shares is lost. How can this be avoided?
>
> The "brute force" method, of course, is to manually convert every lot that
> makes up ABC_COMMON individually to a corresponding ABC_PREMIUM lot. Is
> this problem common enough that there is a feature to do this
> automatically? If not, what is the least painful way to accomplish this?
>
> Thank you.
>
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